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CB-Musings Episode 106: Peter Mourns Tony
We are onto the final movie of phase 3
Peter Parker Goes Through Some Serious Grief..
Movie #23 = Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
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Spider-Man far from home is the final movie of phase three. The best phase Marvel has ever done. And let's be honest people it's not even close. This has been the golden age of Marvel. I have no doubt about that. Spider-Man may not have been the best movie in the phase, but it's still a great film. An amazing Spider-Man film. But I want to take a second to talk about phase three because. It's over now, we're saying goodbye to phase three. And I just want to give my appreciation to Marvel for this, this whole time period. Phase three, kicked off with captain America, civil war that's May 6th, 2016, and it ends off with the movie we're going to talk about today. Spider-Man far from home on July 2nd, 2019. So that's a three-year span where they put out 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 movies. That's 11 movies. In three years. If they did, then now we'd complain that they're putting out too much stuff. But I don't know how they did it. These were just absolute bangers. I would say the weakest one is probably captain Marvel, but even captain Marvel wasn't that bad. But outside of captain Marvel, every one of those films could have made a case for the top 10 on my list. That's insane. I can't believe how, how many projects they put out in a short amount of time. Because three years is a short amount of time. We're not getting anything right now. They're only giving us two Avengers, movie, Avengers movies in this entire phase. That's Sox. I want an Avengers movie. Or, sorry, not entire phase, entire era. So the, the multi-verse saga is going to have two Avengers movies. But the infinity saga had one too. Three four Avengers movies. Double the Avengers movies and probably the same amount of time. No cause we're talking 11 years still. I bet you it's the same amount of time. That's crazy. I can't believe how good this phase was. I'm really gonna miss it. Cause it's, let's be honest. It kind of goes downhill from here. The next phase phase four has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 movies. You know this whole time. I've been complaining that Marvel's been putting out too much stuff. And that's why it's the products have suffered, but I just realize in this moment, How good the content was. And it was more quantity. In a shorter amount of time. That's wild. I think maybe. I don't know, maybe COVID derailed a lot of it. Maybe. They, they had such, um, With the infinity sack, it was such a big buildup in, in such a. Big accomplishment. There was maybe like a tough time finding a way to move forward after they should have give themselves another break. Cause we only had, we had a two year break between far from home and black widow. But it probably would have been a one-year break if it wasn't for COVID. So, what I would have done is I would've had a solid five-year break, five years, have an exact plan, know all the moves you're going to do. You know, far from home. I always get the mix-up it's far from home, not Noel noisy homes. The last one. All the homes get me tripped up. But far from home was a great way to. Put a cherry on top of this epic phase a little, I think they should have just ended with end game. I come on wise, far from home, the last movie of the face. Why not start phase four. With far from home. If anything, what they should've done is far from home. Should've kicked off this next era because it's Spiderman trying to move on from Tony stark and missing him and grieving feeling that loss that would have been an excellent way to kick off the next. Era of Marvel. They should have just done that. If I had to say one issue with far from home and really. Kind of this whole saga or this whole trilogy of Spider-Man films, it would be, I wish. Spider-Man had more stories. Ground level, you know, in New York. You had the first movie then the next two. He's not even there. He's all over the place. Like, I guess you could argue that the last movie was. It took place in New York, but it wasn't really grounded. Like Spider-Man's a grounded character. I want to see him. Street-level and I know that's what we're going to get in the second trilogy, but I think it should have been the other way around start him street level. And then as he grows and his popularity grows in the university, accomplishes more things, then he has these more grander level threats to deal with. Then he gets involved in the multi-verse and space and all that stuff. That to me is a more natural progression than what we've seen Spiderman do. And in saying that I still love the film. I thought the humor was great. Mysterio, we all knew he was going to be a bad guy going into the movie, but I still thought it was great watching how it happened. the trickiness of mysterial was always a favorite of mine. Like when I play the Spiderman game, the second one miles Morales, and Spider-Man. And miles. That one. I love that game and I love the side missions with Mysterio. So yeah, naturally I loved the movie, right. Uh, it was the way they portrayed. That was really good with the. The tr, like I said, the trickiness and you don't know what's real. And the drones. Making everyone believed that these elementals were real. It's natural default to kind of a Spider-Man silliness. And a lot of these Spiderman movies, because it's kind of a hallmark. Trait. Of the character. That goofiness. And I get it, but I found. In this movie, they kind of bounce it out really well with the grief that Spider-Man was feeling over Tony stark. Everywhere. I look, I see his face. That's what he says in the trailer. They cut it in a way that he saw like spike, uh, iron man's, a mural. It's this constant theme of feeling like he can't do what he's not good enough. He, and also trying to balance the fact that he wants to have a normal life with MJ and. You know, hang out with Ned, just your typical kid. Stop. But I think. He realizes in this film that he really can't. It's he has a responsibility. Tony stark gave him that responsibility with Edith. Either Edith or these glasses that he gets in the movie that are basically this crazy defense system. And. Um, the whole point of Mysterio was he was tricking. Spider-Man to giving it to him. So then he can use it to kind of make himself look like this big hero to the world. It was really well done. Great story. I didn't like how. Nick fury was. Uh, scrawl, like, did that really have to happen in this movie? do we need that reveal didn't really serve any purpose. And it was an after credit scene. If it just ended there. Then no one would have known watching back, he didn't really act like Nick fury, but you could have made him act like Nick fare, wrote a differently, you know what I mean? I really, um, loved happy in this film, that one scene where he ha. Peter Parker looks to happy. He's in tears, scared. He's going to get all his friends killed, killed. And it just says, I really miss him. The happy to as I miss them too, man. And then, um, Peter Parker goes and he starts to build a suit again. Cause Mysterio destroyed it. And what he does is he puts his hand through this hologram, any kind of starts like messing with the hologram. And it's it mirrors when Tony stark was doing that with Ironman happy looks at him like. Like a tears in his eyes. He sees Tony stark and Peter Parker, then it's just as beautiful moment. I thought that was my favorite part about the film. Just Peter Parker. Dealing with that. Loss and, and mourning his, his hero and his, his really Tony stark was his only father like figure he had. If he's mourning. Tony stark. After this movie, I'm mourning the loss of phase three. Because now we got to move on to phase four. Which still has some great movies in it. Maybe in this rewatch, when I look at them again, The com. The hit me a little better. Who knows. That's the whole point, right? Let's find out. On another episode of savvy geeks. I'm your host, mark savvy. And I'll see you next time.